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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 29 • BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1929 SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
I IN OUR
| VALLEY
FRIENDS of In Our Valley have
written this Column for today.
From McAllen comes this:
“The good people of Texas who
are looking for a place to spend
their vacation should not overlook
their own state—especially the Rio
Gi-i-de Valley. Texas offers as
beautiful places to go and places
Aifh as great opportunities for rest
And : creation as any person couid
Hrish- The Valley.
' Fishing and golf are good—tour
ist camps are plentiful and modern
—all the thrills of out-of-door life
can be enjoyed here.
“The scenic beauty is unsurpass
ed. The weather is enjoyable. In
fafct, all of the advantages of the
best resorts are found here in the
Valley.
“The Rio Grande Valley offers
Texans a fine place to spend their
vacations.''
• • •
Right, right as can be. Texan*
could go far and find less in the
way of an ideal vacationland than
is offered here in The Valley. The
writer of the above should have
mentioned that there are numerous
splendid hotels for those vacation
ists who do not care for camp life.
• • •
NOW HERE IS ONE from way
up in Oklahoma, which proves in
terest in the Boca Chica road to
be intrastate at least—possibly in
ternational.
Barney Wolverton. formerly a
resident of Brownsville, now em
ployed in the Oklahoma stale re
formatory, writes:
“I read with pleasure the daily
urging that the paving of Boca
Chica highway be completed.
“I don't believe the people down
there realize the importance of this
road being completed and paved at
the earliest possible moment and
the building of various kinds of
amusements along the gulf for the
entertainment of your residents and
visitors.
“What do you suppose Oklahoma
C*ty or Tulsa would give for the
Pulf located near their towns, the
soil and climate, the close proximity
of Old Mexico.
“As it is these Oklahoma cities
are spending millions of dollars get
ting ready for the eastern and nor
thern tourists who are coming here.
Every little bit of water is dolled up.
artificial lakes are made, boating
and bathing facilities provided ar
tificially. No natural places like the
gulf, of course.
• • •
"One firm is spending $1,300,000
on a tourist camp two miles nor to
oU Lie state capitol—and tourists
are comiu^ to Oklahoma by hun
dreds o: thousands because Okla
homa is going out after them.
"I am employed by the Oklahoma
state reformatory at this time and
I receive and entertain visitors.
“The other day I had visitors
from California, Nevadad, Kansas.
Missouri. Chicago. New Mexico, and
dozens of them from Texas.
“Now. why a Texan would leave
the gulf breezes, where it is from
two to 10 degrees cooler than it is
Li Oklahoma, I don't know. We
had a temperature of 113 in some
parts of Oklahoma this year and
IK) all over the state daily for
weeks.
“We eat lots of grapefruit and
usually some friend down there
tends me some, but we have been
out and not a Valley grapefruit
4 ild be had for three months. To
y I bought some California
inefruit, about the size of a base
ba.. and just about as dry. A very
jpetty color and well cleaned, look
ed fine, but no comparison to your
fruit"
• it
Now there is a real Valley booster.
What that fellow should do is come
back to the Valley he loves so well
snd be happy.
• • •
HERE'S ONE from E. A. (Cap)
Sterling:
“Gee, I want to shake hands
with you and thank you for the
dandy editorial m todays paper.
Bay boy. you sure are onto your
Hjob. You simplv have hit the big
gest and best bet for Brownsville
that can be made. I have a large
line of friends all over the state
and when the:, come down here
and cannot get to the beach on
account of bad roads they go back
lomplainlng. The beach is the only
playground the lower Valley has
and there is no finer playground
an the coast.
“Bet 'em heavy, Im for you,"
• * •
ON A DIFFERENT SUBJECT—is
me from "A Reader" in Browns
ville :
A'The writer has heard so many
Adverse comments lately from visi
tors to the Valley about the legends
(CoBtfnue«$ on page thirteen.!
• —3 *•
TWO KILLED AS
EUROPE POLICE
AND REDS CLASH
Communist Leaders Over Continent Being
Jailed to Prevent Further Outbreaks on
Anniversary of Soviet Revolution
LONDON. Aug. 1 .—(A*)—European capitals adopted most strenuous
measures today to prevent disturbances growing out of heralded demon
strations by communists in celebration of the Soviet “anti-war day.”
Paris took some of the aspect of an armed camp, despite most of its
communist organizers being safely under police lock and key. A last
BOMB RING IS
BARED IN RAID
Organization Supplied
‘Pineapples’ to Rack
eteers; 12 Jailed
CHICAGO. Aug. 1.—(JP)—A bomb
ing syndicate that had supplied and
used “pineapples” in Chicago and
•ther cities for years was believed
crushed today with 12 ot the al
leged ring leaders in jail and the
arrest of others expected soon.
The arrests, in a spectacular raid
on the gangs headquarters last
night, constituted the first major
attempt to stop one of the city’s
most notorious evidences of lawless
ness. a long series of bombings had
increased until this year the aver
age has been about three bombs a
week.
The raid was executed through
the efforts of an under-cover agent
who had worked his way into the
gang's confidence.
The agent, James Altmeier, had
purchased one bomb and for three
months had been accepted as a
racketeer. Last night he arranged
for the purchase of a larger ship
ment.
Gives Marked Money
With one police squad hidden
nearby and another surrounding a
house that served as the gang's
headquarters. Altmeier completed
his deal. He received a package
containing four bombs and paid
*1 (Continued On Page Ten)
MURDERER GETS
* * *
FIRST GLIMPSE
* * *
OF MODERN AGE
BOSTON. Aug. 1.—</P>—J esse
Harding Pomeroy. 71-year-old mur
derer of small children, whose
crimes horrified t: : country more
than half a century ago, had op
portunity today to glimpse for the
first time the marvels of modem
life. He was forced to take an au
tomobile trip 40 miles from the
Charleston state prison to the state
farm at Bridgewater.
The East Boston newspaper boy
entered the grim prison in 1878 at
the age of 17.
Sentenced to hang for the mur
der of Horace Milan, whose tortured
body was that of ' is third victim,
Pomeroy obtr ned a commutation to
life imprisonment. For 41 years
thereafter he sufferr-' solitary con
finement. Then he was allowed, to
take his place with other life pris
oners.
Early this month his counsel.
John F. Daly, opened a fight to
have Pomeroy transferred to
Bridgewater.
f
(batch or 40 communists were ar
rested last night. Forty foreign
agitators were put across the
frontier. Twenty-two thousand
soldiers and policemen guarded the
city.
The most serious preliminary' dis
turbance was reported from Sara
jevo. Jugoslavia, where in 1914 were
fired the shots which precipitated
the World war. Two workmen were
killed yesterday and several others
wounded when police fought with
communists who set fire to the
railroad shops and tried to ignite
other buildings.
Reports from Zagreb, capital of
Croatia, said communists distributed
dynamite bombs among the workers
of that center of the Croatian
separatist movement. A police fight
with communists growing out of a
raid on a printing plant at Sarajevo
resulted in the death of the estab
lishment's owner. Revolutionary
documents were confiscated.
Bela Kan Arrested
At Budapest, Bela Kun, com
munist leader and former dictator
of Hungary, was arrested with a
number of other leaders of the
party as a government precaution
ary measure. At Prague, Czecho
slovakia. the government took ex
treme measures, importing 1,000
additional gendarmes and occupying
important buildings with armed
troops. The communists advertised
extensive demonstrations.
In Berlin the Newe Berliner
Zeltung said communists had re
ceived orders from Moscow to mo
bilize for guerilla warfare which was
to break out at 100 different points
simultaneously in order to keep the
police on the jump.
Orders were issued throughout
Germany prohibiting communist
demonstrations of any nature, al
though despite this an assembly was
called at Berlin for 5:30 p. m Po
lice of Munich. Nuremburg. Ham
burg and many other places were
reported particularly watchful.
Machine Guns Ready
Rumanlo, Bulgaria. Greece. Fin
land. Switzerland and Turkey were
among countries affected by the
communist demonstrations' threat.
In all precautionary measures
against disorders were taken, these
principally consisting of prohibitory
decrees, arrests of leaders and con
centration of troops. In some
places cordons of machine guns
were said to be drawn around lo
calities where outbreaks were
feared
Britian apparently expected less
in the way of disorders than any
other European country, nothing
more than mild demonstrations
being forecast.
TROOPS GUARD PARIS
ON ‘ANTI-WAR DAY*
PARIS, Aug. 1.—i>Pi—Paris was
quiet today as troops and police
held command of the streets in
preparation for any possible dls
trubances growing out of todays
communist "anti-war day." There
was a good deal of tense expectancy.
Many stores were closed with steel
shutters but otherwise conditions
were fairly normal
The tmly trouble reported in
France was a short clash at Mont
pelier. where troops charged a riot
ous crowd emerging from a com
(Continued Chi Page Ten)
DOOMED MAN’S
LAWYERS MAKE
FRANTOLEA
Indications Are That
Courts Will Not
Give Reprieve T o
Convicted Slayer
(By the Associated Press>
AUSTIN, Aug. 1.— —After
conferring for almost an hour
with attorneys for Harry J. Lea
shortly after midnight for the al
hy, scheduled to be electrocuted
leged slaying of Dr. J. A. Ramsey
of Mathis. Governor Moody an
nounced he would not Interfere
with the electrocution.
W. C. Wofford of Taylor, one of
the condemned man's attorneys,
said Leahy’s lawyers would con
fer later in the afternoon on last
minute steps to save the south
Texas ranchman's life.
Apparently hope of a court or
der faded, as the lawyers went
before Moody to ask a brief re
spite to press further court action
appealing the verdict of sane ren
dered by Leahy's Georgetown jury
last week.
Leahy was convicted of the mur
der of Dr. J. A. Ramsey of Mathis.
On his first trial at Georgewest in
Liveoak county, he was given 50
years in prison. His motion for a
new trial was granted by District
Judge T. M. Cox and the case went
to Williamson county on a change
of venue. There the jury ordered
the death penalty inflicted.
Scheduled to die in -he electric
chair on July 12, the execution was
stopped when Miss Amanda David
son of Taylor filed an affidavit,
giving it as her belief Leahy had
become insane since his conviction.
Governor moved the date of execu
tion to August 2. after Judge Dolan
had issued a writ staying t' e elec
trocution until the sanity hearing
could be held.
Leahy w’as convicted on the testi
mony of a Mexican, who said he
had been employed by Leahy to de
coy Dr. Ramsay rway from his
home to a lonely spot in the brush
near Mathis, where the mur.'.cr was
committed, after Leahy forced Dr.
Ramsey to sign some papers. The
states theory was that the papers
were deeds to the old Leahy ranch,
which Dr. Ramsey had pr...based
from a mortgage company.
PALACE ROBBED,
* * *
SPANISH POLICE
* * *
HOLD AMERICAN
MADRID. Aug. 1.—MFV-Span
ish police held in custody today
an American giving the name of
Baekey J. Dee. described as a
Chicago banker and tourist. He
is charged with attempting to
take from the famous Escorial
palace near Madrid a valuable
ancient procelatn plaque Dee
emphatically denied the charge.
As a tourist party left the pal
ace. guards detained it. declaring
somebody had taken a rare por
celain plaque and a piece of old
candelabra. The tourist guide
declared this was Impossible. The
guards Insisted and police were
summoned. The police declare
they followed Dee and found the
plaque.
Palace guards told the police
Dee offered them money to forget
about the affair. This also is de
nied by the American, who has
made a blanket denial of all the
charges.
The case has not yet been of
ficially taken up by the American
consulate in Madrid.
j SUES FLYER j
Tieing up t: . $14,000 airplane
that was presented to Loren
Mendell and Pete Reinhardt for
their endurance flight that set a
new world record at Culver City,
Eleanor Merry, above, of Los An
geles. has filed attachment pro
ceedings on the ship and a $28.
730 damage suit against Mendell
for injuries sustainci in a forced
landing when rhe as flying with
the aviator some time ago. Sher
iffs have refused to let the fly
ers near their plane pendii _ out
come of the litigation.
$278 OF SCOUT
GOAL IS RAISED
_
Systematic Campaign To
Gather $3500 Is Now
Getting Under Way
With a systematic campaign or
ganization gradually getting into
motion, some $278 of the $3,500
sought for the Brownsville Boy
Scouts had been raised through
Wednesday night, according to fig
ures in the office of Ed Mockbee,
chairman of the drive. It is hoped
to achieve the goal by August 7,
the date set for the opening of
Camp Perry on the Arroyo Colo
rado.
The major portion of the fund
would go Into the local budget for
the coming year. Part of It would
be used, however, for a Browns
ville Scout hut at Camp Perry.
Brownsville has lagged back in con
tributions for the past two years
and its quota was not raised. This
year, they are proving liberal and
Mockbee. a newcomer here from
Edinburg, states he believes the
fund will be raised. Mockbee has
been interested in Scout work for
many years.
Houses Visited
The campaign is being conducted
systematically and it is hoped to
(Continued on page ten.)
Ill Woman Juror
Halts Snook Trial
COURTHOUSE, COLUMBUS.. O.,
Aug. 1.—(TP)—The sudden Illness of
Mrs. Helen Lunsford, only woman
on the regular Jury in the trial of
Dr. James H. Snook for the killing
of Theora Hix. forced a recess of
court today ur:il 11a. m , when ad
ditional mer.TOere of an excused
venire were recalled In order to
qualify new Jurors.
Dr. and Mrs. Melvin T. Hix, par
ents of the slain co-ed. will attend
no more sessions of the trial. Boyd
Haddox. their attorney, said the de
cision was reached because of the
physical condition of Dr. Hix and
the strain he had been under dur
ing the first five days o! the hear
ing.
VALLEY RESENTS
TARIFF PROTEST
OF SAN ANTONIO
Bell Telegraphs Surprise At Action of Porter
Whaley In Lining Up With Florida Res
taurant Men Against Tomato Tax
• Special to The Herald >
SAN BENITO. Aug. 1.—The declaration that he would fight the pro
posed tariff on Mexican tomatoes, which the Valley ha: sought for four
years, was bringing a flood of indignant telegrams to the office of Porter
Whaley, manager of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. Thursday.
Whaley's stand came as a complete surprise to Valley interest* who
thought they had the backing ot
the entire state. The San Antonio
chamber head mrde his declara
tion to the press * er having fc'en
asked for his opinions on the sub
ject by the Rc taurant Men’s as
sociation of Florida.
Valley interests are making vi
gorous representations to Whaley,
asking that he revoke his st.-'.d. It
has been estimated that the tariff
on Mexican tomatoes would mean
approximately $10,000,000 to the
Valley.
Surprised at Action
J. E. Bell, head of the San Benito
chamber and chairman of the Val
ley tomato tariff committee which
has made several trips to Washing
ton, wired Whaley Thursday morn
ing expressing great surprise at his
action. The Valley had taken it
for granted that they had San An
tonio's backing in the tariff matter,
Bell stated. In view of the fact
that this section is on San Antonio’s
trade territory and th ’. their in
terests are mutual. Bell could not
see the logic of Whaley's state
ment.
Whaley averred that the Mexican
tariff would increase tl e price of
tomatoes to the consumers. This.
Bell believed, would not be the case.
It would stimulate American grow
ers and additional acreage would
be planted t-» tomatoes, increasing
the production, the San Benitan
believes The increased production.
Bell believes. The increased pro
duction would take care of what
products might be excluded due to
the high tariff. Bell said.
Fight in Earnest
Whaley expressed intention of
entering :he fight in earnest. He
plans to send telegrams to influ
ential parties in Washington and
to conduct an active campaign
against the tariff in Texas.
Valley interests have b:cn co-op
crating with other tomato '--owing
sections in seeking the tariff. Sev
eral trips have been made to Wash
ington and the tariff has been con
sidered In a favoral light at the
capital, it is said. Backing of Con
gressmen John Garner. Tom Con
nallv and H. M. Sheppard h s been
obtained, members of the Valley
tomato tariff committee states.
Claudius Huston May
Direct Republicans
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.— (/T) —
While President Hoover intends now
to make no final decision on the se
lection of a chairman for the re
publican national committee, Clau
dius H. Huston of Tennessee and
New York, is foremost among those
he Is considering.
Hubert Work will relinquish the
chairmanship in the fall and the
executive committee of the national
committee will meet late in Sep
tember or early in October to name
a successor to direct the 1930 con
gressional campaign and presuma
bly to carry on at least until the
opening of the presidential cam
paign in 1932.
The President and Mr. Huston
long have been personal friends, the
Tennesseee manufacturer having
served as assistant secretary of
commerce early in Hoover’s admin
istration as head of the commerce
department.
THREE KILLED
BY CRAZED MAN
South Carolina Shipping
Clerk Throw* City
Into Confusion
SPARTANBURG. S. C.. Aug. 1.
—(/Pi—Three men were killed, two
others probably fatally wounded
and the entire West End of the
city thrown into confusion today
when T. Earl Robertson, a shipping
clerk, becoming suddenly insane
ran amuck with a Rand ax.
R. H. Ray. 30. sales manager for
the J. W. Bell company; J. L. Bus
sey, ’8, bookkeeper and cashier for
the J. W. Bell company, and M. L.
Davis, 36, a railroad emplove. were
instantly killed or so badly hurt
that they died in a few minutes.
Thad Sherbert. 31, a railroad em
ploye, and Dan Dunlap, negro, 40.
an employe of the J. W. Bell com
pany, were so badly hurt they are
are expected to die.
Robertson apparently was normal
when he came to work this morn
ing. Suddenly he crept up behind
Day and Bussey in the office of
the J. W. Bell company where all
three were employed, and split
their heads.
Leaving the building Robertson
went to the Charleston and West
ern Carolina railroad yards. There
he saw Davis and Sherbert sitting
in a box car eating lunch. Creep
ing up behind them he a tucked
them before they were aware of his
presence.
Robertson was overpowered after
a long chase and placed in the
county jail.
Chinese And Soviet
Envoys Hold Parley
TOKYO. Aug. 1 —(/P»—Dispatches
to the Native Press from Manchuria
today said B. N. Melnikov, former
Soviet consul general at Harbin,
and Tsai Yun-Sheng. commissioner
of foreign affairs at Harbin, met on
a train on Russian territory oppo
site Manchuli early yesterday.
After a lengthy discussion, bear
ing on the situation with regard to
the Chinese-Eastern railway. M.
Melnikov returned to Dauria and
Tsai to Manchuli. Both telegraph
ed their governments for instruc
tions.
PEIPING. China. Aug 1.—
Sun Po. minister of railways in the
Nanking government. told the press
today China intended to conduct ne
gotiations with the Soviet govern
ment on a basis that woul d be
placed under a Sino-Russian joint
ownership, administrative power
over the railways would be taken
over by China.
Before the Accident—Insure.
Rio Grande Valley Trust Company.
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Just What Would You Do-Why? Edison Scholarship Quiz Covers Wide Field
WE8T ORANGE, N. J.. Aug. 1.
_(4»)—Forty-nine aspirants for
the scholarship offered by Thomas
A. Edison and the honor of be
coming the Inventor’s protege to
day took the examination which
is to determine which of them is
to be the winner.
The questions covered chemical,
geographical and historical sub
jects. The boys were expetced to
know the specific resistance of
copper wire and whether a bottle
of mercury or a bottle of water
would make the best foot warmer.
Several ethical problems were
put to the contestants who had to
state when they considered a “lie
permissible’’ and tell if they would
choose to become successful at the
loss of happiness, comfort, repu
tation. prkle. honor, health, money
or love.
Others were more technically
involved. For example, “on what
physiological phenomenon is the
success of motion picture projec
tion dependent?” and "what is
the underlying principle of an
internal combustion engine?” in
cluded in the questions were:
“What classes of books listed
below do you most enjoy reading?
Number them 1. 2, 3. etc., in order
of preference: adventure, mystery
stories, travel, biography, fiction,
invention, history, economics, sci
ence.
Questions
“If you were marooned e on
a tropical Island in the South
Pacific, without tools, how would
you move a three-ton weight, such
as a boulder. 100 feet horizontally
and 15 feet vertically?”
"If you have been given a cer
tain experiment to perform and
had been informed that it could
be done successfully, but you had
failed ten times, what would you
do?"
"What new discovery or inven
tion do you believe would be the
greatest benefit to mankind?
Why?"
"If you were to inherit $1,000,000
within the next year what would
you do with it?”
"Two towns on opposite sid,vs of
a river one mile wide are cuv off
from communication with each
other by any electrical means due
to a calamity. How could you at
tempt to establish communica
tions between the two cities with
out the use of electricity. The
river can not be crossed by human
beings.”
“Will you act as spokesman for
the candidates when we meet
Mayor Walker in New York City
or would you prefer to let some
one else do it? Why"
“Give a brief statement or what
you hope will be a typical day for
you when you are fifty years of
age."
How Far?
"The captain of a boat wbeu
passing a certain cliff on a sum
mer night heard the echo of his
whistle four seconds after blow
ing. How far away was the cliff?
If he repeated this observation
from the same point on a day in
January, would he notice any
change in the time? If so, what
and why?’’
“When you read the names of
the following persons what facta
are associated with them in your
mind? Mendeleff. Davy, Perkin,
Faraday, Curie, Priestley, Gay
lussac, Dalton. Solvay, Ramsay,
Lavoisier.’*
“If you were nailing a copper
sheeting on an exposed surface
9
what kind of nails would you use,
and why?”
' Assume the increase of any
colony of mice to be such that the
number doubles every three
months. How large will the colony
be at the end of three years if
we start with one pair?”
“A triangle each of whose sides
Is fixed is divided into three equal
areas by drawing two lines paral
lel to the base. Where will these
lines intersect the altitude?”
“Outside of the field of re
ligion, what three men now living
dc you think particularly deserve
your respect and admiration?
What qualities do you admire in
each?”
PASSES SPAIN,
OUT OF SOUTH
EUROPEAN SEA
Americans Included In
Passenger List; Also
Freight, Baboons;
Plan 80-Hour Trip
<By the Associated Press)
LONDON. Aug. 1.— —The Graf
Zeppelin was rrpnrted to have pass
ed over Barrclonia and headed out
to the Atlantic ocean this after
noon.
The steamship Dalhy reported
sighting the trans-Atlantic air liner
Graf Zeppelin at 3 o'clock this af
ternoon (10 a. m. E. S. T.) "over the
Mediterannean between Marseilles
and the Balearic islands.
The Daiby, which is a French
steamship, reported the position of
the Graf Zeppelin as 41.28 north
latitude and 3.29 east longitude.
This point is about &Q miles off
Bareclonia. Spain, and would indi
cate that the Graf Zeppelin was
cutting straight down the Mediter
ranean and from South France to
Gibraltar.
Pushing her way slowly against
a strong south wind down the Val
ley of the Rhine, the transatlantic
airliner Graf Zeppelin this after
noon was well dowt towards the
Mediterranean -fter having success
fully passed the scenes of her los
ing struggle against contrary winds
in her unsucce&.'ul voyage in May.
The big dirigible, carrying seven
Americans among her 18 passen
gers. steadily but cautiously nego
tiated the difficult mountainous re
gions between Basel. Switzerland.
By HERBERT S. SIEBEL,
Special Correspondent of
The Associated Press
ABOARD GRAF ZEPPELIN.
\ug. 1.—(iPt—(10:2ft E. S. T.)—
Everybody is happy. Most of the
aassengers had breakfast at nine
yclock this morning. We passed
aver Lyons at 11:10 a. m..
i French time) at a speed of 80
miles an hour.
The menu for lunch was soup,
salmon, venison and potatoes,
bread, carmelle and fruit.
At noon we w’ere over Valence.
The sky was cloudy In the di
rection of Marseilles and Gibral
tar.
and Lyons. France, this morning,
and was reported at Montellma-,
in southern France. 90 miles from
the mouth of the Rhone, at 12:41
a. m.. 16:40 a. ra.. E. S. T.)
Sky Cloudy
The sky was generally cloudy and
the visibility only medium as she
flew at an altitude -* 3.000 feet
from Valence, France, to Montell
mar.
At Saintes-Maries de-la-Mer. in
the Rhone delta, the dirigible
planned to start out over le first
section of her sea Journey, reach
ing the Spanish coast near Barce
lona. Thence. Dr. Hugo Eckener,
commander of the airliner, planned
to head for Gibraltar, as on his
first successful flight to America.
By bearing far to the south on
the longer Gibraltarum. Dr. Ecken
cr hoped to skirt a low pressure
area moving from Ireland towards
the coast of nothrern and western
France.
The dirigible left its Friedrich
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j WEATHER 1
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.
Light to fresh southerly winds on
the west coast.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy
tonight and Friday, probably show
ers on the east coast.
Light to moderate easterly winds
on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be a slight to moderate
rise in the river from above Rio
prande City down during the next
‘few days.
Rio Grande River
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Chng. Rain
Eagle Pass . .26 3 6 —12 .00
Laredo .27 16 +1.8 .00
Rio Grande 21 5.6 -0.5 .00
Mission ......22 6.5 42.5 .00
San Benito ..23 7.6 -l.i .00
Brownsville ..18 3.4 -0.8 00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorolo
gical conditions:
High .3:24 a. m.
Low.7:16 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today .7:16
Sunrise tomorrow
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